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__**"Not Exactly on the Bubble"**__ (original article) As one of the top technology schools in the country, Caltech's basketball team is made up of "three valedictorians, six National Merit Scholarship finalists, seven mechanical engineers, three computer scientists, one debate team captain and one chess club president." For 26 years, the Caltech Beavers mens basketball team has not won a Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference game. After going 0-310, they finally figured it out and won a conference game on the last game of their season on senior night. The game ended and almost 400 fans stormed the court.

__Quote:__ "Nobody goes to Caltech to storm the court. You go there to storm space. You go there to work on the Mars rover, invent a car that runs on oxygen and get a corner office at Microsoft."
__Analysis:__ The fact that Caltech won was very surprising to the fans, but even in this situation they knew what to do.

__Group Reaction:__ Reilly pokes fun throughout out entire article. He constantly points out how they players are "rocket scientists", "geeks", and "nerds". He constantly jokes about the players dual abilities in basketball and smartness. These are all jokes, but it all makes sense.

-Only two guys on the team have girlfriends. The starting forward has Star Wars posters on his wall. The star of the -team got a perfect ACT score. -The coach starts each week asking, "OK, how many guys will have to pull all-nighters this week?" -This is a team that can figure out its shooting percentage as it's falling back on defense. -"It was simple statistical probability, after 310 games and getting so close so many times, you're bound to win one game, right?" -He scored the game's last seven points, including the winning free throw. What do you know? Spheres do fit in cylinders.

__Question:__ If you were a player or student at Caltech, would you still play or go watch the team knowing how historically and currently bad your team is? If so, what motivation would you have and why would you keep playing?

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